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- The Week In Books: A feast of rich and dark materials (Independent)
Monoculture threatens literature just as much as landscape. If featureless plains of soya beans or oilseed rape can ruin not just the charm but the resilience of an eco-system, then a reading culture built around a narrow band of middle-of-the-road fiction and biography runs the risk of wrecking its fertility. From tutors on creative-writing courses I hear the complaint that their students ...
- Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish - Al-Ahram Weekly
It is five years today -- Thursday 25 September -- since the death of the Palestinian public intellectual and political activist Edward Said, "the most brilliantly eloquent emissary of Palestine to the outside world" in the words of an equally ...
- Zimbabwe: Mukanya Heads for SA Show, Zim - AllAfrica.com
Legendary Zimbabwean musician Thomas Mapfumo will be coming to perform in October, Standardplus can report. Mapfumo is scheduled to perform in South Africa this month at the 12th Poetry Africa International Festival to be held in Durban. The festival ...
- Silly fun with teens in 'Emo! The Musical' (The San Francisco Examiner)
Teen angst - it happens to the best of us. Take a second to reflect upon those melodramatic years and recall the disaffected youth you most identified with: Were you the misunderstood artiste, the perpetually stoned slacker or perhaps the sad-sack scribe of seriously bad poetry?
- Briggs was a ‘teacher's teacher' who loved to write poetry - San Antonio Express
Briggs was a ‘teacher's teacher' who loved to write poetrySan Antonio Express, TX - 1 hour agoShe often helped students off campus and loved to write poetry and chronicle her life in personal journals. And she always packed the suitcase with ...
- Readings and Signings - Portsmouth Herald News
Readings and SigningsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - Sep 5, 200810 at 6:30 pm: Open mic poetry nights are back. Local poets Matt Miller and Nancy Jean Hill will be sharing their poetry before opening the floor to anyone ...
- Home-grown virtuosos - Chicago Tribune
HAVANA - Without saying a word, teenager Yamile Cruz seats herself at the grand piano, places her slender fingers on the keyboard and, after a brief pause, unleashes a torrent of sound one might expect from a virtuoso twice her age and size. Though ...
- The closing ceremony of Tay Son - Binh Äinh Festival - Nhan Dan
Nhan DanThe closing ceremony of Tay Son - Binh Äinh FestivalNhan Dan, Vietnam - 7 hours agoPoems of late renowned poets Han Mac Tu and Xian were honoured during a poetry recital night at Ghent Rang place of interest. Tay Son- Binh Dinh Festival ...
- ‘Firehouse’ still fanning the flames of creativity - Tri State Defender
Tri State Defender‘Firehouse’ still fanning the flames of creativityTri State Defender, TN - 14 minutes agoWest: Returning home to Memphis in 1978 to organize the 1st National African-American Crafts Conference & Jubilee (forerunner of Atlanta’s National Black ...
- Rowe: Jazz moves him while poetry is moving her - Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO - Britteny Williams keeps her poems in a yellow notebook. Ben Jensen keeps his drums in a corner of his midnight jam room, beneath a poster of jazz singer Billie Holiday. They don't know each other. But they blossom from the same branch ...
- Jenny Diski tries to stay awake - London Review of Books (subscription)
Jenny Diski tries to stay awakeLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 2 hours agoShearsman Books published his prose Journals in 2006. James Meek’s most recent novel, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, was awarded the Prince Maurice prize ...
- The Solar System Was Nice While It Lasted - RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
The Solar System Was Nice While It LastedRhinoTimes.com Greensboro, NC - 1 hour agoSo the really, really bad news is that collider's not going to go online in October as had been planned, but now they have (A) moved up the date of the end ...
- Gallery sponsors concert today - Sault Star
Gallery sponsors concert todaySault Star, Canada - 1 hour agoMarie residents will have their poetry published inMoments in Time,a collection of work from the Northern Ontario Poetry Competition. ...
- More resort than dude ranch (The Columbus Dispatch)
BRIDGEPORT, Calif. -- The heifers are acting surly, but my horse pushes forward. My young crew of 10 or so cowpunchers encircles about 30 head of cattle on a wide pasture in the shadow of a sawtooth mountain just west of Bridgeport. Our horses slowly lead the cattle toward a gate at the far end of the field.
- Irreplaceable Bernstein celebrated in series of events - Newark Star-Ledger
Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds. When: This weekend through Dec. 13. Where: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and other New York venues. How much: Visit bernsteinfestival.org for ticket information NEW YORK -- Leonard Bernstein was larger than ...
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